Video: NPR Fires Juan Williams over Muslim Comments

*NPR senior news analyst Juan Williams was fired Wednesday night after making comments about Muslims during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” the New York Times reported.

During Monday’s appearance on the show, Williams, who is also a political analyst for Fox News, was asked by host Bill O’Reilly to address to the idea that the U.S. is facing a “Muslim dilemma.”

“I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot,” Williams said. “You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

NPR said Williams’ remarks “were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”

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I’m not sure the punishment fits the crime, but his remarks were inappropriate, the same as if a white news reporter stated on air that they were ‘nervous’ or ‘worried’ every time they were assigned to cover a story in the ‘hood.

I hate to see anyone lose a gig but for a person of color to make such a bigoted statement is intolerable. Being a man of color, Williams has to know how it feels to be a victim of blanket bigotry.
I still cannot say I understand the Muslim religion. But to fall prey to the stupidity that because of someone’s religious affiliation, instantly makes them suspect to being a terrorist is naive, foolish and backwards.
Clearly Williams has been at faux noise far too long because their bigotry is rubbing off on him big time.
Farewell Williams and accolades to NPR for not letting this one slip by.

as for me, i aint looking at the ones in garb, im looking at the ones without…im even looking at some negros…..hummphh,,i am an equal opportunity flight risk observer…i just wanna fly from where ever im at to philly with no provocation. keep yo got dayum hands where my eyes can see.

I’m no fan of Juan Williams when he is on Fox, but those of you who listens to NPR Knows that once he changes microphone, you are listening to a pretty balanced unbiased analyst.

I didn’t even know that you could fire someone for that. He was wearing his Fox hat at the time, and they know that’s what he does when he is over there.

But back to the comment itself. What if it is truth? How many times do yts display the same behavior towards blks. And this is not on a bus or a train which you could bail from. Once you up there, it’s just you, the terrorist and some scared yt ppl.

Doesn’t look good for NPR, especially with that report saying like 80% of their “NewsHour’s” guest list are white males.

So will they hire a brother for Juan’s replacement? They could get one of the black analysts from MSNBC. Juan did a dual role with Fox, so they can do.

Nah. Y’all know NPR would be too scurred to do that. They got to maintain that “balance” to provide cover from conservatist criticism. They not going to work with anyone from the “leftist” media.

I must have missed something but when did Juan Williams become a ‘liberal’. To my knowledge, he’s always touted conservative views, particularly, when it pertain to his own people. Honestly, I don’t care about his plight. *shrugs*

I still think it’s kind of hypocritical for NPR to fire Juan for that, and I’m guessing that there is more to it than that. My guess is that they wanted to get rid of him, and just jumped at this opportunity. Make no mistake, the very reason why Juan got that gig is because of his conservative leanings (or pretending). What I mean is, he is known to voice his conservative views (whether he believes them or not). And the whole news cycle is staged. “We are going to get this brother, who is a conservative.” That’s NPR’s way of thinking. They are not that much different from Obama. Although they are generally good people, they feel compelled to not necessarily pander to the right, but to go out of their way to avoid their criticism. We all know that despite NPR’s fairness, the right always complain that they are siding with the left against them.
Uhm! Maybe it’s because the right is always wrong. 💡

20090302_schiller_33Call me lucky. I had a pre-scheduled interview this morning with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller this morning before her speech at the Atlanta Press Club Newsmakers luncheon at the 191 Club in downtown Atlanta.

Wrong is wrong no matter who does it to whom. What he said was unacceptable. He’s a professional journalist and knows better. Hopefully he learned from this and will not repeat this same mistake at the next gig.

At the end of his piece, the editors noted in Willaims’ bio that he “is now a full-time Fox News contributor,” and the LA Times reports the Williams has now signed a three-year $2 million dollar contract with the network.

Oh Yeah BTW:
“At the end of his piece, the editors noted in Willaims’ bio that he “is now a full-time Fox News contributor,” and the LA Times reports the Williams has now signed a three-year $2 million dollar contract with the network. ” 🙄

Ok..1st? I think this dude is a “tom”! plain & simple! Why else would he go ANYwhere & continue the SAME exact racist B.S. Bill O YT did on the view!? Answer?, cause he’s their “boy”/chicken George “that’s whyyyyy! But objectively?, what’s fkd up is..a White man can say all kinds of stereotypic B.S. about ANYone & recieve ..NO repermand what’s so ever! While a person of color can “tell the truth” (this statement being about the hispanic dude who was fired by CNN!) & EVERY LAST one of those people?, get’s fired!, not even a damn…suspenion, & after all their years of service! See?, YT makes Us (& everyone else)the reciever of all THEIR guilt & rightful punishment! Again I say…FK YT!!!

So…why didn’t the 1st amendment apply to the Latin dude that got fired from CNN!? Hardly NO ONE brought that up for…him, as a defense. So WTF is….”that”! I’ll tell yah what, it’s White men or men who “kiss the as-s OF” WHite men thinking they can lie or say WTF they want to about “others”, but the minute a minority says some TRUTHFUL about them?…nigs. get all bytchy & “sensitive” & fire peeps, “that’s” WTF it is!! Weak as-s muthufkas!

First of all lets make one thing clear, Juan is NOT a liberal journalist!

What Vivian Schiller said about him needing psychatric help this morning is true… If seeing someone dressed in Muslin attire makes you scared that they are a terrorist, then you are out of your F*$king mind, and in desperate need of psychological help.

It’s the same irrational fear that White folks have about Blacks, and it’s the very reason why a brother can’t get a cab in NY city at 2:00 am.

I’m glad they fired his trifling ass! And don’t cry for him Argentina, because this SAMBO is right where he should be, at FOX with a $2Millon salary no less!!!!

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